Species of rodent
Mus mayori Mus Mayor's mouse ,highland rat ,[ 1] spiny mouse .[ 2] endemic toSri Lanka .[ 1]
This mouse lives in tropical and subtropical forest types and wetgrassland habitat. It isfossorial , seeking shelter by digging burrows. It isnocturnal .[ 1]
This species is widespread in parts of Sri Lanka but it faces a number of threats, includingdeforestation anddomestic cats .[ 1]
There are two subspecies,M. m. mayori andM. m. pococki . A recent study catalogued theparasites associated with subspeciespococki : amite of genusEchinolaelaps tick of genusIxodes sucking louse Polyplax spinulosa [ 3] pseudoscorpion was found on the mouse, described, and namedMegachernes kanneliyensis [ 4] flea Stivalius phoberus [ 5]
^a b c d e de A. Goonatilake, W., et al.Mus mayori . ^ Wijesinghe, M. R.Predicting effects of rainforest fragmentation from live trapping studies of small mammals in Sri Lanka. [permanent dead link ] Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(6): 2629-2636. ^ Ratnaweera, P. B., et al. (2010).Parasitic associations of a threatened Sri Lankan rainforest rodent,Mus mayor pococki (Rodentia: Muridae). [permanent dead link ] Journal of Threatened Taxa , 2(6), 901-907. ^ Harvey, M. S., et al. (2012).A new species of the pseudoscorpion genusMegachernes (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) associated with a threatened Sri Lankan rainforest rodent, with a review of host associations ofMegachernes . Journal of Natural History , 46(41-42), 2519-2535. ^ Yathramullage, S., Meegaskumbura, M., and Meegaskumbura, S. (2014).Record of five new endemic small mammal hosts for four ectoparasite species from Sri Lanka. Archived 2016-03-04 at theWayback Machine Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 17 473-476. Wilson, D. E. & Reeder, D. M.Mus (Coelomys )mayori .Mammal Species of the World . Third Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Extant species of subfamily
Murinae (
Melasmothrix –
Mus )
Melasmothrix
Melasmothrix Tateomys (Greater Sulawesian
Micromys
Millardia
Mus division
Mus mayori Coelomys mayori
